Britain’s biggest retailers are bracing for a sharp rise in property tax bills as government reforms to the business rates system threaten to add £600 million in costs across the sector, with London’s West End and major supermarket chains among the worst hit. According to analysis by property consultancy Colliers, changes due to take effect from April 2026 will see ...
Richard Caring has apologised to suppliers of his restaurant businesses after a letter was sent out informing them there would be a “mandatory” 2.5 per cent cut to their invoices. Caring’s restaurant empire, which includes The Ivy Collection and Bills, wrote to suppliers earlier this month telling them that “to ensure our business can remain strong” a 2.5 per cent ...
British manufacturers are retreating from the United States as a key export market in the face of growing trade uncertainty and punitive tariffs driven by former President Donald Trump’s protectionist agenda. For the first time in the history of Make UK’s quarterly survey, the US has fallen out of the top three regions where UK manufacturers expect to do business. ...
President Donald Trump on Sunday said Israel and Iran sometimes ‘have to fight it out’ while expressing optimism that a deal can be struck as both countries continue to trade airstrikes amid fears of a wider conflict in the Middle East. Trump was getting ready to board Air Force One to depart for Canada to attend the G7 Summit in ...
Israeli parliament member Ohad Tal told Fox News Digital that striking a deal with Iran should not be the goal without first toppling its ‘evil, jihadist regime,’ as President Donald Trump on Sunday called on both sides to come to the negotiating table. Tal, who sits on the Knesset foreign affairs and defense committees, spoke to Fox News Digital from ...
Former Biden-era White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre abruptly left the Democratic Party in her rear-view mirror, announcing in June that she had become an Independent after spending more than two years as President Joe Biden’s top spokesperson and defender. ‘Our country has become obsessed with blind loyalty to a two-party democratic system. In her new book, timed for publication ...
This Time Technology Beats Financials After a week of no changes, we’re back with renewed sector movements, and it’s another round of leapfrogging. This week, technology has muscled its way back into the top five sectors at the expense of financials, highlighting the ongoing volatility in the market. Communication Services and Consumer Staples have swapped places since last week, while ...
Former top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin and Alex Soros, son of billionaire left-wing donor George Soros, married in a lavish wedding in New York on Saturday that reportedly drew attendance from high-profile Democrats stretching from former Vice President Kamala Harris to former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. The couple married in Water Mill, N.Y., at a Soros family ...
After House Republicans passed reconciliation language banning taxpayer funds from paying for sex change treatments, Democrats began using language to drum up opposition that conservative watchdog group the American Principles Project says is meant ‘to confuse people and make it sound like we’re trying to ban normal healthcare, medically necessary healthcare.’ The House-passed version of the One Big Beautiful Bill ...